Belmont, WV 26184 Frost Dates
26184, near Belmont, WV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Belmont sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Belmont's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belmont against the rest of the dataset
Belmont's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 24,980 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WV, it ranks 496 of 885.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26184: local microclimates, on what one yard in Belmont can differ from the 26184 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Belmont's frost date answer different questions.